https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/d8c14033-0e60-42ba-8c63-fe0068a0c1cb This short silent home movie was shot by an unknown American traveler. It shows a trip to sunny Los Angeles, California in February of 1950. It opens with the flight into the city on an American Airlines plane, probably a Douglas DC-6. The film takes viewers down to the ground for scenes around the blooming city and the iconic Sunset Boulevard aka "Sunset Strip", including a shot of Mickey Cohen's famous storefront. Sunset runs between western and central LA. The story goes, "the Strip" got its name in 1888 as a city employee squinted against the hot sun while heading west. The film opens with an orange yellow sunrise on the horizon (:17) fading to blue. Jagged California land is pictured below (:38) with a wing tip in the high right corner. Snow powders the peaks of mountains (1:34). Checkered open land encircle a congested city (2:02). Highways run across, stretching to another city nearby (2:07). The wing cuts through mashed potato thick clouds (2:45). On the ground in Los Angeles, a passenger walks from the boarding stairs (2:51) marked with the American Airlines logo. Commonwealth Avenue in Los Angeles follows (3:03). The Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument known as The Town House (3:19) is pictured. It was erected in 1929 on Wilshire Boulevard near Lafayette Park. Today it operates as low income housing. Simon’s Sandwiches Fountain; a small drive up eatery, is situated nearby (3:23). The travelers enjoy lush green palm trees (3:34). The intersection of Commonwealth and Wilshire follows (3:45). Travelers mingle outside of their hotel (3:54). The Ford Super Deluxe appears (4:02). NBC Radio City West (4:05) served as the headquarters to the NBC Radio Network’s West Coast Operations. This was one of Hollywood’s largest projects. Another sign points to the iconic Sunset Boulevard (4:18). Evening festivities include music from bands known as Tico Robbins Rhumba Band (4:27). Mickey Cohen’s storefront building appears at 8804 Sunset Blvd (4:32) The American gangster and head of the Cohen crime family moved to LA in 1939 to work under Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. He opened this store to headquarter his multi-million dollar underworld empire, installing three of his legit businesses in the building: Michael’s Haberdashery, Courtley Jewelers and his tailor’s shop.The camera pans around the city at evening time capturing 1950’s style cars (4:56). They pause at a drive up eatery (5:11). Dark footage shows a female waitress in yellow approaching the car (5:17). The car peels down the road lined with skinny high palms (5:27). From within the car, pedestrians cross the street (5:35). They follow a car up the notoriously steep inclines (5:40). Pedestrians enjoy park benches (5:48). The travelers’ car bounces down the road again crosses over railroad tracks (6:21). A resident shovels thick snow from their driveway (6:24). The film concludes with these snowy images presumably taken from the travelers’ home after their trip to Los Angeles (6:32). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVTxJk4Kq3Y Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:00:21 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/d8c14033-0e60-42ba-8c63-fe0068a0c1cb All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.